The GAVI Alliance
How a public-private partnership has vaccinated nearly a billion children in the world's poorest countries and reshaped the global health architecture.
The GAVI Model
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) was founded in 2000 with an initial $750 million pledge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Its mission is to increase access to immunization in the world's poorest countries. GAVI works by pooling demand from dozens of countries to negotiate lower vaccine prices, co-financing vaccines with recipient governments, and strengthening the health systems needed to deliver them.
The results have been extraordinary. GAVI has helped vaccinate nearly one billion children, preventing an estimated 17 million deaths since its founding. Vaccine coverage for basic childhood immunizations in GAVI-supported countries has risen from 59 percent to over 80 percent. GAVI has also accelerated the introduction of new vaccines: pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, rotavirus vaccine, and HPV vaccine reached developing countries far faster than they would have without GAVI's market-shaping interventions.
